You might well have seen this already – it’s gone viral in museum circles – but just in case you haven’t: King Philip IV recently signed autographs in front of his Velazquez portrait at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Well, sort of. Scroll down and …
This week’s professional organization information is about some very useful and specifically targeted workshops for young and emerging museum professionals. We’ve talked about them before, but the first one, called “LEARN,” is coming up soon and you don’t want to miss it. Information below. *** …
Though, as CultureGrrl points out, it is clearly too early to worry about and assess damage to museums and cultural sites in Japan, not before the human cost of the earthquake and tsunami has been addressed, it’s still good to hear Japanese museums check in.
New York’s Japan society has a good page of information about sending aid to Japan, and you can read and hear about how young Japanese women studying at Showa Boston are faring.
This is a move-fast kind of alert. I just completed the process outlined here by the AAM, and it took two minutes and twelve second. (Yes, I used a stopwatch.) That two minutes and twelve seconds included composing the following paragraph, which I offer here …
Those of you who don’t listen to NPR regularly might not know that the public radio organization has been in quite a bit of hot water lately. Most recently, its former head of development was caught on tape saying some rather…ill-advised things. He believed he …
First: sorry for missing last week’s museum’s in the news roundup! I am not always as on top of my intrepid blog editor persona as I’d like to be.
As a bonus, this week’s news roundup will be twice as long. I know you’re excited.
NH university plans Museum of the White Mountains (proposed museum, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire)
Copper theft attempt costly for Firefighters Museum (Firefighters Hall and Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Singapore’s ArtScience Museum: Lots of museum, not so much artscience (ArtScience Museum, Singapore)
Woman who ripped print at museum must pay almost $3,000 (Loveland Museum/Gallery, Loveland, Chicago)
Museum of Flight prepares for NASA shuttle (Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington)
Museum to honor fallen co-worker (Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama)
World’s richest man turns to art with Mexican museum (Museo Soumaya, Mexico City, Mexico)
Emperor’s New Museum
Museum to display Afghan treasures (British Museum, London, England)
“Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World” on view at British Museum (Photos)
How to get into New York museums for free (various museums, New York City)
National Museum of China re-opens after three year renovation (National Museum of China, Beijing, China)
Museum crowd-curation and the way we live now (various museums)
Plans to open a Madame Tussaud’s wax museum in Australia (proposed museum, Sydney, Australia)
Details of the Leavesden Studios “Harry Potter Museum” are revealed (proposed museum, London, England)
The Nutropolitan Museum of Art: A Peanut Butter Sandwich Art Gallery (The Nutropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)
Clark Art Institute gets $4.5M in gifts (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts)
Oklahoma legislature to consider support of Marshals Museum (proposed US Marshals Museum, Fort Smith, Oklahoma)